Preston Culbertson (Preferred)
Preston Culbertson
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Cornell University
Research Scientist, The AI Institute
Joined
October 2020
Names
Emails
****@stanford.edu (Confirmed)
****@caltech.edu (Confirmed)
****@cornell.edu (Confirmed)
****@cornell.edu (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Assistant Professor
Computer Science, Cornell University (cornell.edu)
2025 – Present
Research Scientist
The AI Institute (theaiinstitute.com)
2024 – Present
Postdoc
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology (caltech.edu)
2022 – 2024
PhD student
Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (stanford.edu)
2016 – 2022
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Expertise
Risk-sensitive control
2022 – Present
Implicit + learned geometry (NeRFs
, etc)
2019 – Present
Dexterous manipulation
2018 – Present
Publications
Co-Authors
- Aaron Ames
- Aaron D. Ames
- Abhishek Cauligi
- Adam Caccavale
- Albert H. Li
- Andrew J. Taylor
- Bartolomeo Stellato
- Brett Barkley
- Claire Chen
- David Fridovich-Keil
- Dimitris Bertsimas
- Edward Schmerling
- Igor Sadalski
- Jana K. Woo
- Jean-Jacques E. Slotine
- Jeannette Bohg
- Joel W. Burdick
- Krishnan Srinivasan
- Mac Schwager
- Maegan Tucker
- Marco Pavone
- Marion Lepert
- Michal Adamkiewicz
- Mykel J. Kochenderfer
- Patrick Slade